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This is the same as -92+92-10=-10.

The brackets aren't really necessary except perhaps for the last one: +(-10) is the same as -10. Negative numbers seem to frighten some people, but you can treat negative as meaning "to the left" and positive or unsigned numbers as meaning "to the right", as in taking steps backward or forward, left or right.

We start with 92 steps to the left or backwards, then we move 92 steps to the right or forward, which brings us back to where we started, or zero; then we take 10 steps to the left or backwards, and we end up 10 steps to the left or backwards from where we started, that is, -10. That's one way of adding positive and negative numbers.

Another way is to use a thermometer, real or imaginary, which has marked degrees below freezing or zero (negative) and degrees above zero or above freezing. 92 degrees below increase by 92 towards zero (melting), but then the temperature goes below freezing again to 10 degrees below.

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